Happiness – An amazing feeling within our reach

Happiness is a pleasant feeling that everyone wants. Happiness is an amazing feeling liked by all irrespective of age differences. Only superficial meaning as possible while attempting to define happiness. It looks so simple to talk about happiness but very complexed when going into a deeper sense. Everyone gets confused with the answer to the question “Are u really happy”. Aim of this article is to create an insight over our efforts to attain the real sense of happiness.

Happiness covers the positive reflections like contentment, satisfaction, joy, cheeriness, enjoyment, delight and carefreeness. Happiness can be felt in a shorter or longer version. Short term happiness is unstable and exists for a short span of time as the name suggests. Some of the apt words to indicate the short term happiness are pleasure, ecstasy, cheeriness and joy. Meeting with friends, watching a match and celebrating a festival may get us short term happiness.

Long-term happiness is attained by feeling happy about our purpose in life, the success and satisfaction accomplished. It is based on concepts not just generated by a single event. Contentment, satisfaction, well-being and carefreeness are some of the indicators of long term happiness. This is the real and strong sense of happiness. But unfortunately not achieved by many. Short term happiness brings a lot of excitement and immediate satisfaction. Long term happiness requires a lot of efforts and sacrifices to be achieved. One must understand the importance of sacrificing short term happiness in order to achieve the long term.

Unique features of happiness

·          Happiness is within us. It is not acquired. It is a purely individualised feeling

·          Scale of measurement of happiness is different from one to another. Not the same incidents or events can get happiness for all. It differs from individual to another

·          Money is not enough to get adequate happiness. Many times it is mistaken

·          It is not necessary that achievements and success make someone happy always

·          Happiness can be shared. Individual who is happy by himself never contain it within himself

·          Expression of happiness differs from one to another. Expecting the same kind of reaction from everyone is wrong.

Suggestions to make ourselves happy

·          Set the scale of measurement of happiness with attainable criteria

·          Learn the technique of balancing between the shorter and longer version of happiness

·          Share the success and achievements with our friends and known

·          Utilise the supportive system while facing the challenges than alone

·          No need for wild celebrations with our achieved status. Because there is always a pressure to maintain the achieved status

·          Do not miss the chances of serving the humankind. Happiest moments of life used to be attained by the blessings of the poor and needy.

Happiness and music also connected. When some one is happy - he sings, when sad – he listens. Singing is always higher than listening. Many are struggling to find happiness by setting the wrong scale of measurements. Try to find the happiness with available resources around us, no need to run behind something or someone.

“Earn your own happiness by being the reason for some one’s happiness”